Dispensing 2 Terminologies
Prescription
• A prescription is a lawful order
of a practitioner for
a drug or device for a specific
patient. In a more specific
sense, it means a written
request for the preparation
and administration of any
medication for an outpatient.
• A prescription may order a
manufactured drug product or
a compounded drug product.
Medication Order
•  A medication order, drug
order or physician’s order is a
request for a drug product for
inpatients in institutional
settings.
•  Typical medication orders (for
inpatient) use different forms,
which may be handwritten in
ink by the physician, typed or
just sent through the
institution’s database system.
 Dosing Schedule
• a scheme set up to
determine and regulate
size, frequency and
number of doses.
 Extemporaneous compounding
• Extemporaneous compounding is
the preparation of a therapeutic
product for an individual patient
in response to an identified need.
It is a practical way to have
medicines supplied when there is
no other option. Active
pharmaceutical ingredients can
be incorporated into a wide array
of products including creams, eye
drops, nasal sprays, oral dosage
forms or intravenous infusions. 
 Medication Review
• A medicines review is a
meeting with your
doctor, pharmacist or
nurse to talk about your
medicines. Your
medicines should be
reviewed regularly
(usually once a year) to
check that they are
right for you.
 Care Plan
• A nursing care plan
documents the process of
identifying a patient's
needs and facilitating
holistic care, typically
according to a five-step
framework. A care plan
ensures collaboration
among nurses, patients,
and other healthcare
providers.
 Medication Error
• A medication error is
defined as any
preventable event that
may cause or lead to
inappropriate medication
use or patient harm
while the medication is in
the control of the
healthcare professional,
patient, or consumer.
Adverse Drug Event Adverse Drug Reaction
• An adverse event (AE) is defined as • An adverse drug reaction,
any untoward medical occurrence in on the other hand, is
a patient administered a medicinal
product and which does not defined as all noxious and
necessarily have to have a causal unintended responses to a
relationship with this treatment. medicinal product related
• AEs can therefore be any to any dose. Thus, for an
unfavorable medical sign or
symptom that has some temporal
ADR, a causal relationship
association with exposure to a must be at least suspected
medicinal product. In other words, by the medical practitioner.
in order to qualify as an AE, it is not
necessary that a healthcare provider
make any determination about the
causal link between the medical
event and the drug exposure.
 Medication Adherence
• Medication adherence, or
taking medications correctly,
is generally defined as the
extent to which patients
take medication as
prescribed by their doctors.
This involves factors such as
getting prescriptions filled,
remembering to take
medication on time, and
understanding the
directions.
 Incompatibilities
• It is defined as when two or more ingredients of a
prescription are mixed together , the undesired
changes that may takes place in the physical,
chemical or therapeutic properties of the
medicament is termed as incompatibility.
 Patient Counselling
• Patient counseling refers to
the process of providing
vital information, advice
and assistance to help you
with your medications and
to ensure you take them
properly. This also includes
important information
about the patient's illness
and lifestyle.